Does Auburn have to lose to a Western Div team or any SEC team?

I know this has been discussed but I had trouble finding where. Would a UGA loss not matter for our dream 3-way tie scenario? Is Bama our only hope? Apologies that I had to start a new thread about this.

 

I think the only way we would win the 3-way tie if they loss to UGA, is if they were absolutely prison raped. They would have to take a tremendous fall in the polls for us to end up a minimum of 5 pts higher in the BCS than them. It is highly unlikely that we would end up with a large enough cushion in the BCS to avoid going to Head-to-Head between us. However, if they lose to Bama, then their 2 division losses would eliminate them, and bring it to head-to-head with us and Arky. If we win, we're in.

 

Any SEC team will do. The main thing is that they lost to Arkansas. If Auburn would have beat Arkansa and lost to two other teams later, we would have no hope because the tie-breaker would go to Auburn. Since they lost to the Razorbacks, it leaves the door open because if we beat Arkansas and they lose to UT and Auburn loses to UGA or Bama somehow, it sets up a three-way tie between us. Since we would both have 2 SEC losses, they would look at who beat who. The SEC would see that Arkansas beat Auburn who beat LSU, the same LSU who beat Arkansas. Then they would go to **common opponents of all three of us i believe**, then they would go BCS.

**I'm not to sure on this**

 

Auburn needs to lose to Alabama, that way they will have 2 divisional losses.

Since AU would have the most divisional losses, they are eliminated and if Ark. loses to UT and LSU wins out, we go.

So yes, Bama may not be our only hope, but it's our best chance.

 

I don't think the 3 of us all have 1 common opponent outside of the division. Us and Aubie both played Tulane and Fla, but Arky played neither. Us and Arky both played Tenn, but Aubie doesn't. Auburn and Arky, both played S. Carolina, but we didn't. I beleive that division record would come before common opponents though. If the 3 of us all have the same division record (4-1), and no common opponent, it would then go to the BCS. That scenario would favor Auburn Heavily. Now if Auburn were to lose to Bama making them 3-2 in the division, and Arky lost to either Miss St. or UT, then our game Friday after Thanksgiving would be for the West crown. It's not impossible for us to win with the BCS tie breaker, but it would take a combination of us making a drastic rise and AU taking a drastic fall, which is not likely to happen. Of course, I would have no problem with AU dropping games to BOTH Bama and UGA, Arky dropping one (before us) and us winning out.

 

the problem is that for LSU to get in the picture, Ark has to lose twice. They will then drop below LSu and Auburn (even with another loss) in the BCS rankings so LSU loses H2H with Auburn.

An Auburn loss to UGA doesnt hurt, but they still need to lose to Bama.

Of course, Auburn could lose to UGA and Bama, and Ark could lose to UT and Miss St.:wink: :wink:

 

If Auburn were to lose to an unranked UGA at home, we should vault over them in the rankings, IMHO. And if Ark only loses to us, we would probably be ranked higher than them, even if they are the west champs. That could possibly put us in line for a BCS at large?

 

SEC Divisional Tie-Breaker

In the event of a tie for the division championship, the following procedures will be used to break all ties to determine the SEC Football Championship Game representative. All Conference versus Conference Games (both division and non-division) will be counted in the Conference Standings.

A. TWO-TEAM TIE

1. Head-to-head competition between the two tied teams.
2. Records of the tied teams within the division.
3. Head-to-head competition vs. the team within the division with the best overall record (divisional and non-divisional) Conference record and proceeding through the division. Multiple ties within the division will be broken from first to last.
4. Overall record vs. all common non-divisional opponents.
5. Combined record vs. all common non-divisional teams.
6. Record vs. common non-divisional team with the best overall Conference (divisional and non-divisional) record and proceeding through other common non-divisional teams based on their order of finish within their division.
7. The tied team with the highest ranking in the Bowl Championship Series Standings following the last weekend of regular-season games shall be the divisional representative in the SEC Championship Game.


B. THREE (OR MORE) TEAM TIE

1. (Once the tie has been reduced to two teams, go to the two-team tie-breaker format.)
2. Combined head-to-head record among the tied teams.
3. Record of the tied teams within the division.
4. Head-to-head competition vs. the team within the division with the best overall (divisional and non-divisional) Conference record and proceeding through the division. Multiple ties within the division will be broken from first to last.
5. Overall record vs. non-division teams.
6. Combined record vs. all common non-divisional teams.
7. Record vs. common non-divisional team with the best overall Conference (divisional and non-divisional) record and proceeding through other common non-divisional teams based on their order of finish within their division.
8. The tied team with the highest ranking in the Bowl Championship Series Standings following the last weekend of regular-season games shall be the divisional representative in the SEC Championship Game, unless the second of the tied teams is ranked within five-or-fewer places of the highest ranked tied team. In this case, the head-to-head results of the top two ranked tied teams shall determine the representative in the SEC Championship Game.

 

great info, thanks!

 

Now if you can explain it to me so that it makes sense to me, I'd appreciate it...